Tom Zbikowski tests positive for marijuana after boxing match

Ravens safety Tom Zbikowski improved his professional boxing record to 4-0 on Saturday night. But a report out today says Zbikowski has been suspended from boxing after failing a drug test.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Chickasaw Nation Boxing Commission tested the fighters participating in the boxing event, which took place at the WinStar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma, and that Zbikowski tested positive for THC, the main psychoactive substance in marijuana.

The Chickasaw Nation Boxing Commission has suspended Zbikowski 45 days. State and tribal boxing commissions generally honor each other’s suspensions, so the two boxing matches Zbikowski has scheduled for the next 45 days would likely need to be scrapped if he loses his appeal.

However, Zbikowski’s manager, Mike Joyce, told the Sun-Times that Zbikowski is scheduled to get a second test today, and that they expect to win an appeal of the first test’s findings.

“We’re appealing it,” Joyce told the Sun-Times. “After the fight, all the fighters tested were positive. They had you pee in a cup and put a strip of something in there. I’ve never seen results where you get them the day of the fight. It was like a home pregnancy test or something. . . . He’s taken all sorts of tests for the NFL and he’s never tested positive.”

It remains to be seen whether the NFL would view Zbikowski testing positive in a test administered for another sport, during the lockout, as a violation of the league’s substance-abuse policy.

wow! haha, way to go Zibby! honestly i could care less that THC is in his system or ANY professional athlete for that matter, it doesn’t improve anybodys physical performance except maybe during dinner time lol, who cares if an athlete smokes pot? NOT ME, im sure i’ll get some flack but the only thing wrong with it is the “positive role model” side of the debate, but Marijuana is ALL over the news let alone the American culture itself and will most likely be legalized in some shape of form at some point in the near future, gradually im sure, but i will be the first to educate my children about the subject in a detailed manner (the problem lies with the parents that DO NOT talk to their kids about it)

Personal view on the use or legalization of marijuana are irrelevant.
What is relevant is players know the organizations from whom they draw a paycheck have banned its use in their employees. Yet the player chooses to use the substance anyway.
Knowing full well that using the substance may jeopardize their career, they still choose to use.
It’s not a drug issue, it’s an ability to control ones self in order to comply with the employers polices.
It’s weak character.

Absolutely NO SUCH THING as a paper-strip pee test for THC. The Indians need a breathalyzer test.
They all tested positive? Must’ve been the ceremonial sweat lodge where they use weed in the fire pit. You know the old, native tradition?
God love those ignorant, drunken Indians!
I have been to Thackerville, Oklahoma. Once.

5 guys tested positive on a card with about 12 fighters. The test will be overturned. There’s no legit Athletic Commission there and and they have only had a couple fights at that Casino on the Reservation. He’ll pass the 2nd test and they should throw out the first result.

I have newfound respect for this guy… now lets hope that instead of “admitting his mistakes and apologizing” he does the right thing and becomes an advocate for marijuana! and I’m sure ill get a response from some hater but thats the beauty of it, I DONT CARE.

@enders9
No I don’t think chad is a pot head… he’s gotten called out a couple times about his tweets where he talks about being approached to take a drug test and then the NFL gets called out on their weak drug testing…